{"id":18357,"date":"2025-03-13T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/?p=18357"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T21:20:12","slug":"southwest-airlines-overhauls-policies-baggage-fees-assigned-seating-and-more-changes-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/2025\/03\/13\/southwest-airlines-overhauls-policies-baggage-fees-assigned-seating-and-more-changes-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Overhauls Policies: Baggage Fees, Assigned Seating, and More Changes Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines has announced several significant changes affecting its services and customer policies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"261\"><strong data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"82\">Checked Baggage Fees<\/strong>: Starting May 28, 2025, Southwest will charge for checked bags. Only A-List Preferred members and Business Select passengers will get free checked luggage. Others will pay a fee.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"262\" data-end=\"457\"><strong data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"286\">Fare Class Changes<\/strong>: The &#8220;Wanna Get Away&#8221; fare will be rebranded to &#8220;Basic,&#8221; which can&#8217;t be changed but can be canceled. These passengers won\u2019t have free same-day changes or standby options.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"571\"><strong data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"488\">Flight Credit Expiration<\/strong>: Credits for Basic fares expire in 6 months; for other fare types, it\u2019s 12 months.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"700\"><strong data-start=\"574\" data-end=\"594\">Assigned Seating<\/strong>: Southwest is shifting to assigned seating with premium options, moving away from its open seating model.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines has announced several significant changes affecting its services and customer policies: Checked Baggage Fees: Starting May 28, 2025, Southwest will charge for checked bags. Only A-List Preferred members [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3346,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,95,147,97,100,98,28,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-alerts","category-parkside","category-popular-topics","category-river-falls","category-uw-lacrosse","category-uwm","category-vendor-updates","category-whitewater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18358,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18357\/revisions\/18358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.wisconsin.edu\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}